This circuit enables you to play all stereoscopic games, including the H3D games. If you want to know what this feels like, you have tolook up the H3D review page. My circuit is compatible to all stereoscopic games so far on the market.It is much cheaper than the H3D glasses, especiallyif you already have old LCD-shutter glasses as the CyberBoy or 3DMax.If you use these glasses you even have bigger LCD panels than theH3D glasses. The only inconvinience is that the glasses are heavierand connected to the controller by a cable.
I tested this circuit on three different machines with different monitors, Voodoo cards and 2D graphic cards. It always worked andthere was no visible difference to the H3D(TM) glasses when playing Quake II. To my knowledge a minimum of 8 people have sucessfully built this sync-doubler (20.6.1998). Some have reported that the circuit version 1.1 is not compatible to all monitors. But thanks toStanley Fredriks there exists now a version 1.2, which he tested with 20 monitors and which alwaysworked (Version 1.2 circuit diagram).For those of you who know a little bit of electronics it should be no problem to fabricate it with the fabricationinstructions. It takes about two days of work to build the controller. You have to spend a maximum of 70 DM for the parts, 20 DM forthe power supply and 38,80 DM for the LCD shutter glasses (The 3D MaxShutterglasses are availaible at PEARL). Here you can see a photo of the complete system with 3D Max glasses,power supply, the sync-doubler and the VGA paththrough connector.
If you are thinking of building the circuit or if you have built it,please send a little eMail to me (nintako at nintaka.com). I'm very curious how many people will build the controller. I'm alsointerested in comments or problems which occured.
The explication of the circuit is only available in german.
Here are the Datasheets.
Die Anregung einen Sync-Doubler zu bauen, geht auf eine eMail vonThomas Schuhmannzurueck. Die Ansteuerung derLCD-Brille wurde von Thomi Engdahl, Thomas Schumann, Martin Krysiak,Joerg Fischer, Michael Bosch und Franz Krause erarbeitet. Gute Informationen zu LCD-Brillengibt es bei Christoph Bungert
Ich Danke Klaus Blaschek und Christian Hettich dafuer, dass ich den Sync-Doubler auch an ihren Rechnern ausprobieren undweiterentwickeln konnte.
My homepage: Florian Schreck
Our homepage in Paris: ENS
Last modified: 15.9.1998
